LearnDataScience - Improving Our Teams' Learning Cultures

What does your data science or software team do to prioritize learning? How are new team members on-boarded? Is your team incurring hidden costs to productivity because figuring out how things work takes longer than it could? The answers to questions like these define a team's learning culture.

This roundtable discussion will consist of a short introduction followed by guided group discussions on learning cultures in our workplaces. We will reflect on our experiences and come up with tangible things we can do to improve the learning cultures we are a part of.

Advanced preparation is optional, but you might consider:
- Reading "It’s Like Coding in the Dark: The need for learning cultures within coding teams" by Catherine Hicks, https://www.catharsisinsight.com/_files/ugd/fce7f8_ba59e7aef3604140a4284c1714b3d18a.pdf
- Preparing stories from your education and career that show good and bad examples of learning cultures. Think of times when you have felt supported, safe, or celebrated during learning. Think of times when you have felt imposter syndrome (i.e. feeling like you don't belong), reputation threat (i.e. not wanting to appear stupid), or loneliness during learning.

Update (Feb 21): This event will be online only

Online participation link:
https://meet.jit.si/moderated/952354bb252a00945529d0ba9b7075551e15349d469fc092e4569700bec1e6f9

Schedule:

• 6:00PM Virtual doors are open, feel free to mingle

• 6:30PM Introductory presentation

• 6:45PM Roundtable discussion

Discussions about this meetup also happen on Discord. Go here to join the #data-science channel.